Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:38:55 +0200 From: "Marcin Wisnicki" <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com> To: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add Message-ID: <dabd71030809291138x175aa5c3re9519bb6595027cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0809281908y510ca4f0s7b250d0036e4ac84@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <7d6fde3d0809272111l6c89eb05i25538121afc7b479@mail.gmail.com> <gbost5$a8l$1@ger.gmane.org> <7d6fde3d0809281908y510ca4f0s7b250d0036e4ac84@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:08, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: >> Would be nice if there was also INDEX.bz2. > > You'd need to talk to the release team about that if you don't agree Indeed > with that fact; INDEX.bz2 item is a portupgrade-ism, and has its own > collection of drawbacks in addition to it's pro's. > >> Also to be able to write an effective pkg upgrade tool one would need >> something like /usr/ports/MOVED. > > INDEX already addresses this. > Really? How? marcin@desktop:/usr/ports> tail -1 MOVED net/p5-Socket||2008-09-25|Removed because newer version is present inside perl5 marcin@desktop:/usr/ports> grep 'p5-Socket-[0-9]' INDEX-7 marcin@desktop:/usr/ports> So how would one know that it is safe to remove p5-Socket without consulting MOVED ? Unless I'm missing something there needs to be a MOVED file or ideally something like it that has pkgnames (with versions) for a binary package update tool to work. > FWIW, I'd get rid of the All/ indexing as it's just a mass > conglomeration of all of the other categories. > -Garrett >
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